Women in developing countries are often characterized by lower social status, less input into decision-making, lack of access to resources, and lower mobility, while their inclusion...
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Highlights: Women make up more than 50% of the agricultural labor force in Sub-Saharan Africa, but they have less access to productive resources. Gender gap in agricultural productivity...
Gender inequality and malnutrition are regarded as inseparable parts of the vicious cycle of poverty, being considered a cause and an effect of hunger and poverty. The majority of rural households practise...
Evidence suggests that women’s limited access to resources, agency, and associated achievements affect agricul tural productivity in much of Africa and Asia. These relationships are further...
In Ethiopia, food security and vulnerability assessments have traditionally focused on rural areas. Recently, the issue of urban food security has been attracting attention in global...
Highlights: Gender food security gap modelled using nonlinear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition approach. Female-headed households have a lower probability of being food secure. Differences...
Highlights: Household Consumption Expenditure Surveys (HCES) can overestimate household intakes. The use of Adult Male Equivalents (AME) underestimates of women’s shares o ffoods...
The analysis of household resilience to food insecurity has become a key technical and evidence-based policy instrument for better tailoring development and humanitarian intervention designs. International development...
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A gender and nutrition SBCC intervention was incorporated within an agricultural program and cash transfer program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The SBCC comprised...
Biofortified beans are being promoted in Burundi to solve malnutrition issues among rural households. The study was conducted in Muyinga and Gasorwe communes, where biofortified...